Count Cromer. "Ancient and Modern Imperialism"**. London, 1910. (P. 143.) Almost worthless. Pretentious prattle, with a scholarly air, with a multitude of quotations from Roman writers, an English imperialist and bureaucrat, who ends with a cry for the retention of India, against those who entertain the thought of its separation. It would be a "crime against civilization" (123) to liberate India... and so forth and so on.

Parallels with Rome, reflections and advice from a bureaucrat, almost exclusively "administrative" in character—that is all.

* Thus in Helfferich. Ed.
** See V. I. Lenin. Works, 4th ed., vol. 22, p. 247. Ed.

p. 101: in India ("Indian Census," p. 173) they write and read English—out of every 10,000 men—90, out of every 10,000 women—10 (101)...


103: good thing we did not resist the teaching of the Dutch language in South Africa: now that language will die out of its own accord...

107: hatred, malice toward the "wretched youth" (Dhingra), who killed Sir Curzon Wyllie (and wrote his defense in English)...

110: cites the "Journal of the Statistical Society," vol. XLI: Walford. "Cases of Famine in the World"... (350 cases of famine). In India there were cases when 3-10 million died of hunger (111)... Romesh Dutt. "Famine in India" (quotation 113)...

122: In India 147 languages; 276 million speak 23 languages ("Indian Census," p. 248)...

124, note: advice to young Englishmen to "read, note, study and master" the history of the "Indian Rebellion"...

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